If you are going to RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon, come to our BoF session on Friday evening, May 18, 9:30-10:30 pm at the Oregon Convention Center (rooms c123-c124). We’ll demo the new, Ruby on Rails version of Deme there.

Greetings, Deme loyalists. We’ve been hard at work on a brand new implementation of Deme in Ruby on Rails. The rewrite began last summer and we plan to show off what we have to people at RailsConf in Portland May 18-20. As before, the code will be free/open. Stay tuned.

The new version of Deme will be demonstrated on Sunday, Feb. 12, at CodeCon 2006 at StudioZ in san francisco. We will post the new code online beforehand so that conference participants can access it. In the past, CodeCon audio streams and an IRC channel have been set up for use during the conference - watch the conference homepage for more info.

A video of Todd Davies’ recent People, Computers, and Design seminar presentation, “Designing for Deliberation”, is available here. The slides are also available on Todd’s website.

While you’re waiting for the new version of Deme, Ben Newman (Deme Team developer) has written a course paper detailing how he’s solved a vexing problem for programming the new version’s interface: the “hidden fields” limitation in JavaScript’s inheritance scheme. His library-based approach, building on Prototype, is described here [pdf file].